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14th Aug 2018

These are the 6 best movies on the telly tonight

Rory Cashin

Lawless

Tom Hardy or Emma Stone or Jason Statham? Decisions, decisions…

Another quite eclectic selection of the best movies on telly tonight, in case you’re not going to the cinema (which you should, and we review all of the new releases in the latest episode of The Big Reviewski, right here), but if you are sitting in, then we’ve already done all of the hard work for you…

TUESDAY 14 AUGUST

Mission: Impossible III – Sky One – 9.00pm

Arguably the best of the series (depending on who you ask), and features both Philip Seymour Hoffman as the big bad guy and a bridge attack scene that still stands out as one of the best action sequences of the 21st century.

Easy A – Comedy Central – 9.00pm

The movie that keeps getting lost in the shadow of Mean Girls, despite arguably being A LOT funnier, thanks to Emma Stone on fantastically adorkable form as the teenage girl who rallies against her school when she gets branded as a ‘slut’, and some great support from the likes of Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson and Thomas Hayden Church.

American Pie – ITV2 – 9.00pm

If you don’t know where she put the flute, then you probably need to watch this movie, as it is something of a modern comedy classic.

Night Of The Living Dead – BBC Four – 10.00pm

George A. Romero’s 1968 original, the movie which more or less brought the zombie genre into the world, as corpses begin to claw their way from their graves, and a small group of people seek refuge in a house, willing to do whatever it takes to stay alive.

Lawless – Film 4 – 11.10pm

Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman and Dane DeHaan star in this tale of a group of bootlegging brothers, the women they fall in love with, and the government agent who has them all in his sights.

Killer Elite – ITV4 – 11.40pm

Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert DeNiro star in this silly but still entertaining action thriller about a killer-for-hire who is forced into murdering the three children of an English government agent as revenge for his previous actions.